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Mark Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat
June 16, 2010 – 7:39 am | View Comments
Mark Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat

In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it’s putting the entire planet at risk.

Dean Ornish on the world’s killer diet
June 14, 2010 – 8:31 am | View Comments
Dean Ornish on the world’s killer diet

In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why…

William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer ?
June 11, 2010 – 8:37 am | View Comments
William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer ?

Many of society’s most devastating diseases — cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s, to name a few share a common denominator: faulty angiogenesis, the body’s growth of new capillary blood vessels. Given excessive or insufficient blood vessel growth, serious health…

Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks
May 17, 2010 – 1:01 pm | View Comments
Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks

We’re all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits — from happiness to obesity — can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don’t even know.

Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria “talk”
April 16, 2010 – 2:21 pm | View Comments
Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria “talk”

Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria “talk” to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry — and our understanding of ourselves.

Leading scientist confirm: High Fructose Corn Syrup is poisonous
April 13, 2010 – 2:04 pm | View Comments
Leading scientist confirm: High Fructose Corn Syrup is poisonous

The facts and the challenged history are in and they do not look good for the corn sweetener industry.
Finely we have a long awaited verdict and main stream Science can now show the added dangers of this insidious Industrial product that is added to most foods consumed in America.

Jamie Heywood: Founder of Patientslikeme.com
February 10, 2010 – 3:50 pm | View Comments
Jamie Heywood: Founder of Patientslikeme.com

In 2005,Jamie and his youngest brother Ben, along with close friend Jeff Cole, built PatientsLikeMe.com to give patients control and access to their healthcare information and compare it to others like them.

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